For those who have never heard of BBSs, they were simply a person's home computer with software that allowed another computer to dial in and access files.  Only one person could be on at a time unless the SysOp (System Operator, or Godlike Being) had multiple phone lines and modems.  It was nothing like today's Internet, but a heck of a lot of fun--and quite the power trip if you were a SysOp.

From left to right are:
Kathy Larock--aka Zookeeper--SysOp of Collector's Corner BBS
Suzanne Feld (McAllister at the time)--aka Easily Amused--SysOp of Tradewinds BBS
Kathi Seidl--aka Katsei--SysOp of GIFs R Us BBS

We are standing in my "home office" in front of the computer that housed Tradewinds, my BBS, which was really a corner of the upstairs bedroom :-)
(Scan by George Seidl from newsprint as the Detroit Free Press never gave us copies of the pictures taken)